I tend toward the unhinged.

We must keep Bluesky weird.

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Ethnic cleansing by the IDF

Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon.

Ford & the Cons continue to underfund public healthcare in order to accelerate the privatization of Ontario’s healthcare system, as directed by their corporate donors.

They must be stopped.

Yes, Israel is destroying Lebanon's breadbasket. This is why I have been saying that Israel's goal is to destroy Lebanon itself.

Media should stop saying Israel is “demolishing” villages in Lebanon. It’s misleading.

The accurate term is ethnic cleansing.

Tweet from Pete Hegseth: "The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine, effective immediately."

Photo of large ward of soldiers stricken by the 1918 influenza pandemic

Pete Hegseth: "No more mandatory flu vaccines."

History: "Well Pete, In WW1, influenza killed as many American soldiers as died in combat, about 50,000".

A network of YouTube accounts is promoting U.S. annexation to Albertans, researchers say. It has 40M views Flagged as a "potential covert influence operation" in a new report, those behind the network are tough to trace.

Researchers have been watching this network of YouTube accounts for awhile--the accounts post regularly, push a consistent message and if one goes down, another pops up. They've now turned attention to Alberta separation, and US annexation.
www.thestar.com/news/investi...

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

What I learned from Prince and Muhammad Ali was that it’s possible to love yourself so much that everybody else does, too.

NYT headline: Democrats Once Loathed Gerrymandering. Now They're Pushing for It.

NYT gotta NYT

Tree Stories: Pawpaw A tropical tree in the north

Pawpaw trees are just starting to bud here in Toronto
Wishing all growers a productive season!

Tree Stories: Pawpaw
A tropical tree in the north

@tomkimmerer.bsky.social

ourtrees.substack.com/p/tree-stori...

In memory of:

Sajida Hussein Mahmoud Abdel Aal / ساجدة حسين محمود عبد العال
Age: 11

We will not forget you.

Cuba confirms talks with US in effort to lift illegal fuel blockade THE Cuban government confirmed that it held talks in Havana recently with US officials over ending Washington’s illegal energy blockade of the Caribbean nation.Deputy director in charge of US affairs ...

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cuba...

Pentagon revokes mandatory flu vaccine policy, calling it 'absurd' Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth announced the military is ending a longstanding policy that required all service members get the flu shot.

you couldn't get a 104 degree fever mid-combat until now, because of woke

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

On Tuesday Israel killed 7 people in Gaza, with confirmed death toll during the 'ceasefire' reaching 784.

Israel claims to have killed over 60 more people.

Same kind of 'ceasefire' before and now in Lebanon.

Trump & Biden both claim Israel's attacks don't break ceasefire.

Same with US & Iran.

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NFU-O Town Hall: Public Land Leases for Farmers

Join the NFU-O to discuss public land leases for farmers and the development of a guide for best practices and standards

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"Displaced Palestinians read books at Al-Ankaa (The Phoenix) library, the first library opened since the ceasefire in #Gaza Strip containing salvaged books from libraries destroyed [by #Israel]}... On April 21... (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP via Getty Images)"
www.threads.com/@omarelqatta...
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Always simply ask "What would Putin have us do?" and you'll have your answer:

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

I WAS RAISED TO BELIEVE THAT WE DEFEATED FASCISM IN WORLD WAR II AND THAT WE WOULD NEVER ALLOW IT AGAIN IN THE WORLD. I DON'T ALWAYS STATE PUBLICLY MY POLITICAL OPINIONS, AND LIKE ANYONE I DON'T ALWAYS KNOW ALL OF THE FACTS, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THIS MAN AND THIS ADMINISTRATION I'M NOT GOING TO BE LIKE ONE OF THE SILENT MINORITY OF 1930'S GERMANY. THIS MAN IS A DANGER TO NOT JUST AMERICA BUT THE ENTIRE WORLD AND THAT'S NOT AN EXAGGERATION, HE'S DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY AND ENDANGERING THE PLANET ON A DAILY BASIS, AND WE. ALL. KNOW. IT. JACK WHITE

Israeli actions on the West Bank, tacitly encouraged by the Netanyahu administration, are heinous, ethnic cleansing actions, which cannot be tolerated. We need to suspend military assistance to Israel and send a strong message.

Ford fed into the “cash grab” narrative, which was covered by media, despite having this report’s words of caution three years earlier. “So to hear a premier just keep repeating that misnomer again and again is beyond disappointing.”

Last time Chelsea scored a goal the Strait of Hormuz was still open.

#LFC

Doug Ford’s cabinet approved $28.9-million jet Ford confirmed that Tuesday, insisting the issue was "a no-brainer" for ministers because the aircraft was needed in a province as vast as Ontario.

Stiles said Ford “thinks he’s the victim.”

“But I’ll tell you who the victim is. The victims are the people of Ontario, the taxpayers of Ontario, who’ve had to fund his spending spree. He is not the victim here,” the NDP chief said.

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Ford may be getting calls from rich pals to keep his Kristi Noem plane but what I’m seeing now after his whining is calls for him to resign.

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1. Boy, Amazon is in a heap of trouble. Evidence made public yesterday by California AG @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov shows blatant price fixing. And there are so many examples. Here's Amazon scheming with a pet food supplier to get Chewy to raise its prices.

His father was a jazz pianist out of Louisiana, his mom a vocalist. Miles thought of him as the Ellington of his generation. The connection between jazz & Prince is strong & on Voice Tracks I'll mark his 10 yr passing with covers of his tunes.

Sammy Jackson, Lyle Lovett & more.

9pm with JAZZFM91